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I. P. CVMOSA, Walter, Fl. Car. 179, (178S). 



P. coryvibosa. Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. ii. 54, in part, (1803.) 

 P. graniinifolia, Poir., in Lam. Fncycl. v. 500, (1804). 

 P. attcnuafix, Xutt. Genera, ii. 90, (t8iS). 

 P. acuiifolia. Torr. and Gray, Fl. N. A. i. 128. (1838). 



Glabrous 



throughout; 



stem erect. 2^-4^ l^i^h. simple 

 below, corvmbosely branched at the summit; root-leaves 

 rosulate, long, narrow, acuminate, 2'-6' long, x^^-d^^ broad, 

 stem-leaves alternate, few, scattered, narrowly linear, smaller 

 and subulate toward the summit; corymbs simple or com- 

 pound; spikes ovoid or C}'lindrical. ^^''-^^ in diameter, bracts 

 persistent; pedicels about \'^ long; flowers yellow, becoming 

 blackish-grcen when dried, wings elliptical .or narrowh' obo- 

 vate, mucronatc, nearh' 2^' long, crest of keel consisting of a 

 feM' small processes; stamens eight in number; style some- 

 what broadened at the middle and prolonged above into a 

 curved, tufted appendage, stigmatic gland short-pedicelled; , 

 capsule minute; mature seeds brown, minute, globose, gla- 

 brous, without caruncle. 



Z^^'AzTiV?/*^.— l^llendale, 1 874, Canby. South Carolina. — ■ 

 Elliott; Santee Canal, Ravenel. Georgia. — Xuttall, Baldwin. 

 Florida. — Chapman, Dr. Leavenworth, Mary C. Reynolds; 

 near Jacksonville, A. H. Curtiss, No. 511; near Mayport and 

 Jacksonville, 1870-1876, Henry D. Keeler; near St. Marks, 

 1843, Rugel; Polk Co.. 1880, J. D. Smith; Indian River, 1874, 

 Palmer, No. 23; Apalachicola, T867, Dr. B. F. Saurman; 

 Tampa, 1876, Dr. A. P. Garber. Jfississi/f^i. — Ocean Springs, 

 [889, S. M. Tracy; near Mississippi City, Harrison Co., 1883, 

 J. D. Smith. Louisiana. — New Orleans, Drummond. 



Type in Herb. Walter, British Museum Natural History, 

 labelled - Polvgala." N. L. B. 



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2. P. RAMOSA, Elliott, Fl. S. C. and Ga. ii. 186, (1824), ex 



descr. 



P. cyviosa, Poir. in Lam. Encycl. v. 500, (1804), not 



Walter. 

 P. coryuihosa, Nutt. Genera, ii. 89, (1818), not Michx. 



